Second Homes in Mid and West Wales

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:59 pm on 13 November 2019.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 2:59, 13 November 2019

Yes, I think that my colleague Rebecca Evans answered this fairly comprehensively in a debate fairly recently. What I would say is if they're—I have said to all of the local authorities across Wales that, if they have evidence that this is causing them a problem, they should bring it forward. I said it at the WLGA executive committee, and I had individual meetings with various local authorities in north Wales around the evidence that they could bring forward. If that evidence exists, we're very happy to look at it. At the moment, we don't have the evidence that that switch is happening to the detriment of local tax raising, but, if there is evidence, we are very happy to look at it.